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New comment by thitcanh in "Domain Shadowing: Leveraging CDNs for Robust Blocking-Resistant Communications"

thitcanh — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 20:07:33 +0000

Just as a side-note since their example uses CloudFlare: I think that host-rewriting is disabled on CloudFlare as a security or spam-avoidance feature.

If you want to have CF change the host to something else, like censored.com, this domain must also be part of your controlled domains, which means CF can’t be used for this purpose.

This at least was the case last time I looked into this (12 months ago)

It’s also possible that this feature is enabled for paying users, which I wasn’t.

New comment by thitcanh in "The US Plans to Finally Standardize the Length of a Single Foot"

thitcanh — Sat, 24 Apr 2021 12:03:51 +0000

I'm 23 buckets tall and half a periwinkle.

New comment by thitcanh in "Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model"

thitcanh — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 09:05:58 +0000

For now?

New comment by thitcanh in "Apple’s M1 Positioning Mocks the Entire x86 Business Model"

thitcanh — Fri, 23 Apr 2021 08:52:47 +0000

What’s the advantage? I don’t think it’s likely to cost less as a service, especially directly from Apple. If you get the same performance per dollar you might as well keep using what you have.

Heat and energy savings only apply to the direct user (in this case Apple Hosting) and unlikely to be passed onto you (since it’s Apple).

We’ve already seen this with M1 computers which are simpler and less expensive but did not have a lower retail price.

New comment by thitcanh in "iMac 24-inch"

thitcanh — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 20:34:21 +0000

You know what’s getting old? My 2020 computer having the same RAM as my 2013 computer.

This is not acceptable for a $2000+ machine.

Apple really skimps on RAM and my new iPhone can’t take a photo without purging every single other app.

New comment by thitcanh in "Bug in Notepad Involving Asterisk in Title Bar"

thitcanh — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 15:36:09 +0000

What a feature to introduce in 2020. This has been a core part of the UI of OS X for… ever? For every app.

New comment by thitcanh in "The Lone Coder"

thitcanh — Sun, 18 Apr 2021 16:21:46 +0000

In a honest non-secure version, just like in the old times.

New comment by thitcanh in "Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged"

thitcanh — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:20:59 +0000

You’re missing the point. Why buy something if you don’t have to? That’s the reasoning here. You don’t spend money, your product doesn’t depreciate, you always have a brand new product. You only have to deal with your guilt and ethics or lack thereof.

New comment by thitcanh in "Products purchased at Apple Store in India cannot be refunded or exchanged"

thitcanh — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 18:16:54 +0000

I think the answer is not “not”

It’s abuse because people buy it with the intent to return it. Buying it and then honestly changing your mind is fine, but Amazon probably determined that wasn’t the case here.

New comment by thitcanh in "Yamauchi No.10 Family Office"

thitcanh — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 07:07:58 +0000

It’s kinda ridiculous that this happens. It’s not like it’s graphic intensive. Why would it warm up any GPU of this decade?

New comment by thitcanh in "Depends on Every Package in NPM"

thitcanh — Tue, 13 Apr 2021 11:44:38 +0000

To be fair, that always refers to the LOC I wrote.

If I can write monaLisa() and get a nice painting on canvas then that really was 1 LOC.

What line count doesn’t include is the weight of the dependency, which may or may not matter.

New comment by thitcanh in "Cloudflare Pages is now Generally Available"

thitcanh — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 13:31:56 +0000

It’s an interesting product but it’s very barebones. Netlify is a whole company vested in making the same thing as this “side project” by CloudFlare and therefore has a lot more interesting features than just serving static files.

New comment by thitcanh in "Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now"

thitcanh — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:56:40 +0000

Yeah that sounds reasonable. I don’t know if I’ll ever get around to rewriting the templates.

By the way you could just use the images served from WordPress.com I assume… unless the ToS don’t allow that.

New comment by thitcanh in "Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now"

thitcanh — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:53:32 +0000

Maintenance is certainly useful even if there are no new features. I doubt the project is bug-free so no updates means no bugfixes either.

New comment by thitcanh in "Creating a minimalist blog with Jekyll Now"

thitcanh — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:49:54 +0000

Do you still have a regular WordPress host though? Do you use WordPress.com?

I always wanted to do this but every solution requires some non-free PHP hosting alongside the static host. WordPress.com doesn’t let you customize it unless you pay and if you want to use it headlessly you have to build a non-WordPress template elsewhere.

I have a low-traffic low-edit WordPress site I want to staticize, but no solution is server-free.

New comment by thitcanh in "French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights"

thitcanh — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:22:09 +0000

Semi-related: Do you think we’ll ever see a substantial reduction of pre-flight times? Why can’t we go through check-in and board directly, after an immediate security check? (Needless to say, this requires a brand new type of airport)

Some airports are in a good position to implement this already: Singapore airport has security checks right at the gate so you go through them and wait a short time in the seating area. When the plane is available, boarding happens immediately. What’s missing here is that the check-in desk is still way before this point.

New comment by thitcanh in "French lawmakers approve a ban on short domestic flights"

thitcanh — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 06:17:11 +0000

Indeed this change has several drawbacks:

- less competition for the affected routes

- harder transfers between modes of transportation (physically)

- harder bookings across modes of transportation

- disappearance of entire routes made possible by hubs from flight-only OTAs (the vast majority of them)

I agree with the sentiment, but I suppose they should just be taxed higher and somehow forced to include a note like:

“A train/bus transfer between CDG and XYZ is also available with . Wanna book just up to CDG?”

New comment by thitcanh in "Linux, macOS, and Windows running simultaneously on a first gen Core i5"

thitcanh — Mon, 12 Apr 2021 02:28:49 +0000

This is true. Most of these comparisons are between a well-used system with a brand-new one. “Of course Firefox feels snappier than Chrome, you haven’t installed your 20 extensions yet.” A so on.

New comment by thitcanh in "I made a mobile app for my significant other and she won't use it"

thitcanh — Sun, 11 Apr 2021 08:20:00 +0000

I wouldn’t use it either, for the same reason. Choosing a movie now takes 1 second for each card since they’re displayed one at a time and I have to do something to say NO.

How about you just show me a list where I can mark what I like and then get a list at the end. Then just switch phones and see each other’s list. Instead of an exact match, you limit each other’s choice to 10 movies you just picked.

New comment by thitcanh in "Auditing for discrimination in algorithms delivering job ads"

thitcanh — Sat, 10 Apr 2021 16:39:09 +0000

Maybe, but why aren’t more girls interested in computing in the first place? If it was just a workplace issue we’d see a lot more college admissions of women in CS programs, who then would drop out or change career later due to those issues.

I don’t think computing is seen strictly as a gender-restricted job like, say, mining and teaching, I wouldn’t expect much friction in the way of a young girl to be potentially interested in it and begin a career.

It just doesn’t happen that often, however. Does it have to be someone’s fault?